Growth And Scaling - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1999
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Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities

described President Clinton's Partnership for Economic Growth and Opportunity in Africa, a plan to stimulate trade with the continent, spur greater private-sector investment, View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Myra Hart Named to Professorship

firmly rooted in practice. She was one of four founding officers of Staples, the office supplies superstore. She subsequently served as the company's vice president of operations and group vice president of View Details

01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride

demand for E Ink technology was growing rapidly, and the company had begun to scale up its production. “We were an R&D company trying to be a manufacturing company,” he remarks. One of the company’s largest... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Sep 2014
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Groundwork

is something that will stay the same. “It’s easy to get caught up in the scale of all this,” she says, “but the real strength of the master plan is its connection to the core mission of the School. The HBS campus was designed, first View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate

01 Jun 2011
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Alumni Books

of how the historic merger between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and CBOT almost didn’t happen. She details the reasons behind the derivatives market’s spectacular growth and... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

01 Sep 2006
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East to West

an ambitious global agenda for growth and greater transparency. His goal of listing the company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange was realized in 1998. Changes to the company’s retirement policy encouraged a more... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan

restaurant investor Lena Goldberg; visiting lecturer and restaurant veteran Michael Kaufman; Christian Charnaux (MBA 2006), chief growth officer at Inspire Brands, with more than 11,100 Arby’s, Buffalo Wild... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

18 Nov 2021
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Strength in Numbers

what’s working with respect to mental health, and also bring scale and resources to bear, so that we can help these organizations and create a... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

understand that our connected style can help us win all the deals we want and get all the business results our shareholders want, that’s really the broad concept here.” Nor has growth stymied the Vision... View Details

02 Dec 2017
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Helping HBS Make Big Bets

Leadership Fellows program, she discovered nonprofit arts organizations as “an ideal way to scale the impact of the arts.” Established in 2001, the program connects graduating MBA students with nonprofit and... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"

natural and human resources, poverty nonetheless prevails — some 350 million Indians live on less than one dollar a day. “The government of India faces the challenge of leveraging huge natural and human... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

10 Oct 2013
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How a Prolonged Government Shutdown Will Impact the Business World

01 Dec 2017
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Bridging Domains

frequently arise in growth markets,” she says. The Mehras view their 30th Reunion gift as a way to give back to an institution that has played an important role in their lives. Both received financial aid as undergraduates View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor

further in the near term and/or increase domestic borrowing vastly. An expanded federal role in the economy will crowd out financing available for productive private investment and diminish growth View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

16 Mar 2017
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Making Rapid Progress in the Fight Against Cancer

in 2 chance of developing cancer in their lifetimes. That’s pretty similar to the figures here in the US and in most of the western world. But actually the largest growth in the number of cancer cases are... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Job Interviews

you left your previous job,” he notes. “Even if there is much that you could criticize, you should talk instead about your desire for growth and change.” Candidates also should postpone detailed questions... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Jun 2003
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John Read

letting go to do. What happened on that trip? I was having a helluva time attempting to scale a difficult rock face with someone belaying me from the top. In a short time the guy on belay, who is critical in this experience, got a sense... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Outward Bound; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools

05 Dec 2016
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How to Start a Tech Company Without Tech Experience

(photo via Twitter) (photo via Twitter) Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) and his fellow HBS cofounders didn’t have any tech experience when they launched the online freelance marketplace HourlyNerd. Three years later the company, now known as... View Details

28 Feb 2020
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Kelly Campbell Named President of Hulu

and “This Is Us,” Hulu represents a critical piece of Disney’s streaming business, which also includes Disney+ and ESPN+. Campbell has been Hulu’s chief marketing officer since 2017. Before that, she spent a... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2016
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The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate

One is how are the bad patents getting issued in the first place? The situation is the result of the confluence of two things: the strengthening of the patents themselves, which has been a gradual change over the last 30 years, and the... View Details